Writing hard stories : celebrated memoirists who shaped art from trauma / Melanie Brooks.
Writing hard stories : celebrated memoirists who shaped art from trauma / Melanie Brooks.
Writing hard stories : celebrated memoirists who shaped art from trauma / Melanie Brooks.
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Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
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G 2017/1001
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Language
English
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Physical content
212 pages ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Andre Dubus III -- Sue William Silverman -- Michael Patrick MacDonald -- Joan Wickersham -- Kyoko Mori -- Richard Hoffman -- Suzanne Strempek Shea -- Abigail Thomas -- Monica Wood -- Mark Doty -- Edwidge Danticat -- Marianne Leone -- Jerald Walker -- Kate Bornstein -- Jessica Handler -- Richard Blan...
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Publisher
Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2017]
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"Acclaimed memoirists describe the process of writing their most painful memories. In her attempt to write a memoir about her father's death from a secret AIDS infection in 1985, Melanie Brooks was left with some painful questions: What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens to us when we embark on that journey? Would she manage i...
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Writing hard stories : celebrated memoirists who shaped art from trauma / Melanie Brooks.
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Celebrated memoirists who shaped art from trauma
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Online version: Brooks, Melanie, author. Writing hard stories Boston : Beacon Press, 2017 9780807078822 (DLC) 2016040221
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G 2017/1001
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74VKV7l3D4od
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV7l3D4od
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ISBN
0807078816 paperback
9780807078815 paperback
DDC
808.06692
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991024069534602626
